Small Business Saturday

Not every family can make news just by sending out a Christmas card, but, then, not every family is the Kardashians. The E! network’s reality show glam-fam has stirred up quite a buzz with the image on their 2013 holiday card. It’s the work of David LaChapelle, a top photographer known for his surrealistic, glamorous style. With the Kardashian shot, that style is revved to full throttle. LaChapelle’s panoramic image looks as if it captured the aftermath of an explosion in a casino. In one corner of the colorful chaos, the nominal patriarch of the Kardashian clan, Bruce Jenner, is trapped inside a clear plastic cylinder. Scattered about the foreground are the...

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Not every family can make news just by sending out a Christmas card, but, then, not every family is the Kardashians.
The E! network’s reality show glam-fam has stirred up quite a buzz with the image on their 2013 holiday card. It’s the work of David...

WASHINGTON -- President Obama stocked up on more than 20 books Saturday in a rare stop at a local bookstore, part of an effort to support small businesses.
The president's visit the day after Black Friday to Politics & Prose, a Washington landmark,...

Granted, it’s not quite the same thing as a big discount on a giant flat-screen television or an Xbox console. But there are Black Friday book deals to be had out there.
Black Friday, for example, is a time when many public libraries schedule book sales,...

Not long ago the writer Sherman Alexie missed one of his readings, standing up fans at the Queen Anne Book Company, a store in Seattle.
"It was Little League season and I completely spaced out," Alexie said. "I owed them a big...

It's not hard to find an author at a bookstore: Just go during the early evening and look for the person squinting under the bright lights, reading to a small crowd of people seated in folding chairs. But on Small Business Saturday, the roles will be...

Bestselling author James Patterson wants to support independent bookstores, and he's putting his money where his heart is. On Monday he pledged to give $1 million to independent bookstores in the next year.
"We’re making this transition to...

The Saturday after the Thanksgiving holiday has, in recent years, been dubbed “Small Business Saturday.” Last year, President Obama spent Small Business Saturday at a local independent bookstore in Virginia -- he and his daughters bought 15 books,...